Photo Courtesy of Rawa Awad. (Model pictured. Photo cropped for proper positioning.) Photo Credit to Jim Hesterman. Rawa Awad is the CEO and creative director of Ethár Collection, a luxury modest formal wear line based in Arizona. UR: Walk our readers through your journey in 2013 during Ramadan and how it lead to starting […]

Photo by Kelly Cappelli In our fourth and final Q & A for Fashion Revolution Week 2017, we spoke with Tracey Martin, a woman of many talents. Martin is a designer and sustainability strategist for companies and individuals. She is also the founder of three different companies: De La Terre Colours, which makes “GOTS certified […]

Pictured from left to right, the Yoga Democracy team of September Easter, Natalie Oldroyd, Kirsten Gilbert, Edward Barnett, and Maria Reyes Cano. (Photo Courtesy of Natalie Oldroyd.) In our third Q & A in honor of Fashion Revolution Week 2017, we spoke with Natalie Oldroyd, the owner of the Carefree, Arizona based Yoga Democracy. Yoga Democracy aims to […]

Our second interviewee in honor of Fashion Revolution Week 2017 is Loren North, a personal stylist at Through the Closet Door. UR: Tell our readers about what you do. LN: As a personal stylist, I work with everyday women and men, and by ‘everyday’ I mean not celebrities, not editorial photoshoots or that type of thing. I bring […]

Each year, Urbanite Runway participates in Fashion Revolution Week, a global movement to raise awareness in the fashion industry about sustainability. The movement was spurred from the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building, which killed over 1,000 people, many of them factory workers, in Bangladesh. This year, Urbanite Runway decided to interview local Arizonans […]

Urbanite Runway spoke with Jared Yazzie, the Owner of OXDX Clothing about his brand and his recent announcement as one of the FABRIC Building and City of Tempe Government’s Fashion Design Scholarship recipients. UR: How did OXDX Clothing start? JY: I started back in 2009. I was going to school at the University of Arizona. […]

Nancy Spaulding is the full-time faculty instructor in the Fashion Design Department at Pima Community College’s West Campus in Tucson, Arizona. The Fashion Design and Clothing Department has been at PCC for 40 years, which according to Spaulding, makes PCC the first college in Tucson to offer fashion design courses to students at a higher […]